Safety-tip for hat-pins.



J. P; HAI'TAN. SAFETY TIP FOR HAT PINS. APPLIOA'LION TILED JUNE 3, 19'11.

Patented Dec. 31, 1912 Josnrn r. HATTAN, or MARION,'INDIANA.

SAFETY-TIP roe HAT-BINS.

Specification'of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. e1, 1912 Application filed June 3, 1911. Serial No. 631,07f7.

['0 all whom it may concern: n

Be it known that I, JOSEPH F. HATTAN, a citizen of the United States, resi ing at Marion, in the county. of Grant and tate of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Tips for Hat-- I Pins, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. I

This invention is an improved safety tip for hat pins and consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed. The object. of my invention is to provide an improved device of this character for use on the point of'a hat pin to prevent any one from being injured thereby. I Y

The device is extremely cheap and simple, is very strong and durable, and may be easily applied to and removed from the point of a hat pin;

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional View of my invention. -Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same and Fig. 3 is a detail view ofa portion ofthe hat pin on which my safety. tip is used. y

1 Referring more specifically to the drawing by numerals 1 designates the tubular body portion ofmy improved safety tip. It is preferably made of spring brass or steel or any othersimilar spring material. One end of the body is open and the other end is inturned, funnel shaped-and closed as at 2 to form aconical mouth 3. A suitable number of radial cuts'or slits 4 are provided in the closed end of the body portion 1 so that the portions of the funnel shaped end. of the body between said slits form spring locking tongues 5 which are segmental in form. The plug 6 which is secured in the body and the inner end of which is spaced from the conical mouth 3, is provided with 'a longitudinal bore 7 which is co-incident with the entrance opening which extends in through the mouth'. Preferably the plugfi projects into the open end of the tubular body 1 to a point beyond the inner ends of the longitudinal cuts or slits 4 so that while the spring'locking tongues 5 may freely yield in an outward direction upon the in will be protected to a considerable degree from becoming mashed inwardly owing to the disposition of the plug 6 just mdntioned. Thus the end of the plug -6 which lies close to, butspaced from theinwardly turned free ends of the tongues will reinforce the base ends of the same and prevent undue inward compression tongues.

In connection with ssiifety tip, :I'enre 3,, which is provided near its point 8, with an ploy a hat pin of the'form shown in annular recess. 9. lVhen-the hat pin point is inserted through the mouth 3 into-the :trom mashing. the

.bore '7, it displaces the spring locking tongues 5 and the latter engage the recess 9 of the pin, thereby locking the tip' thereon. It is to be understood that whileI. have' shown and described the preferred embodiment: of my invention, I do not'wish tobe.

limited to thisexact structure but may make such changes as mayfall within the. scope I" and spirit of the invention'as definedb i; pp nd d claim;

Having thus described my invention I claim A hat pin safety tip comprisinga body closed at one'end and open at theot-her end, i

and a plug in said body, said body being tubular, formed of spring material and having the closed end inturned, and funnel shaped to forms conical mouth. the apex of said mouth being apertured for theipassa'ge of a pin therethrough, saidmouth being alsothe portions of the funnel shaped end ofthe .body between the slits to form-s segmental locking tongues, the plug being provided signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

' JOSEPH F. HATTAN.

Witness es: Romm'r A. BARNES,

sertion of'the pointed end-of a hat pin, they 3 Jornmne BARNES. S

the plug,

provided with a'series o'fradial slits causing 

